avert – v. – 1. withdraw; 2. alienate; 3. oppose
evert – v. – 1. defeat, overthrow; 2. frustrate plans; 3. overturn a ruling; 4. change direction by manipulation
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Primary prevention seeks to avert an adverse health event, while secondary prevention aims to keep an adverse health event from recurring or causing a related problem once it occurred.
~Priorities in Health: Chapter 3, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (2006) – Dean T. Jamison, Joel G. Breman, Anthony R. Measham, George Alleyne, Mariam Claeson, David B. Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills, Philip Musgrove
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The pain resulted in antalgic gait and an inability to actively dorsiflex and evert his left ankle.
~Foreign Body Misdiagnosed as Myofascial Herniation of Tibialis Anterior Muscle (2021) – Lauren Sara